Taxi Zaanse Schans

When you’re on holiday in The Netherlands, the Zaanse Schans is a place you definitely should visit. It’s part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). There are multiple mills, museums and traditional Old Dutch houses to visit. You can easily spend an entire day here or combine your visit with a stopover at Volendam.

Surely, you can use public transport to travel off to the Zaanse Schans. The bus ride from Amsterdam Central Station will take you close to an hour. When you grab a taxi instead, you’ll arrive in 20 to 30 minutes! All the more time to spend at the historical mills, houses and shops!

Fixed price with each taxi reservation

We offer set prices for each booking you make with us. As a result, you’ll never have to guess or speculate about the costs of your taxi ride. In short:

✓ No metered fares
✓ No surcharges
✓ No hidden costs

Calculating your fixed rate is easy. For a pickup from Amsterdam Central Station, enter ‘Amsterdam Centraal’. You’ll see an entry with a train icon in front of it. That’s the one to select. Then for a dropoff at Zaanse Schans, enter ‘Schansend 7, Zaandam’.

We can, of course, pick you up from any location in Amsterdam for a visit to the Zaanse Schans. Our advice for your return taxi is to book it as soon as possible. Staxi is Amsterdam based, so our drivers mainly work in Amsterdam city or Schiphol Airport. We’d be happy to return you to Amsterdam after your visit to the Zaanse Schans. Just bear in mind that it’ll take the driver about 30 minutes to safely get there.

Book a taxi from Amsterdam Central to Zaanse Schans

Are you ready to go? Then go ahead and book your Staxi in one of the following ways:

• Use the fare calculators on this website to book your taxi
• Download the free Staxi App, verify your account, and make your reservation
• Send a message through WhatsApp. The operator will inform you about the costs.
• Give us a ring.

You’ll get a confirmation of your ride shortly after finalising the booking. Sometimes, your e-mail provider will mark the message as spam, so please check your spam box if you cannot find the confirmation e-mail.

Why book your taxi at Staxi?

We believe that Staxi service should make you smile. To achieve this, we train our drivers at our own Staxi Academy. In the yearly course, we discuss subjects such as the provision of service and first aid. All in all, you are in good hands with a Staxi driver!

Other than the best service, here’s what you can expect when you book at Staxi:

✓ Ease of booking: in a few clicks you can book your taxi
✓ Service level: good value for money
✓ Safe and on time: one of our fully licensed drivers will make sure you’ll arrive at your destination without delay

Use our taxi fare calculators or download the Staxi App to find your fixed price in a minute!

About de Zaanse Schans

There are ten big mills and a few small mills to see at Zaanse Schans. But don’t forget the historic houses, shops and museums! At de Zaanse Schans, Dutch history comes together uniquely. Among many other things, you’ll find a bakery, cheese farm, wooden shoe workshop and an old Dutch candy store at the historic town.

Did you know that many of these buildings were once located elsewhere? From 1961 to 1974, lowboy trailers transported traditional houses and some of the mills to their current location at the Zaanse Schans.

De Kat, de Bonte Koe and de Os are the only windmills that are still in the same place they were built. The other mills were either transported in parts or wholly, or completely de- and reconstructed.

Together, the buildings form an impression of what the Zaanstreek looked like back in the 17th and 18th century. Check out the short video below (in Dutch) to see an artists impression of the magnitude of the mill industry in those days. At the height of the mill industry in Holland, no less than 639 mills were active.